The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-26
DISCUSSES THE s52I2TJ2AL
EIDE Og PRoEIB lion.
ELT=GgIEL GREEN, CHANCELLOR OF
LEaGT,oN Law SCEoo1.
At Whose Feet q L5r1e Part O. oZ7
Lawyers Received Their Legal
Training. Read It.
Circumstanoes Alter Cases.

love to men, and that the apostle
recon mended little to his spiritual /
son, limo by. Can it be, they ask,
that the Lord and his apostles
would encourage the Sc Of wine if
its use is so destructive, SO terrible
on the human family?
W. ought to meet This point fairly.
There should lie neither quibbling |
nor lodging.
In he first place-thOugh others
do not agree-I am willing to admit
that the wine ust d and recommend
ed was good VINE with alcohol IN 1T
and which, if used III excess, would
produce intoxicatiol.
In the next place, I believe such
wine Is often good tonic or nedlN
cine, and that 1t was not only used
as sucl in the days Of our Savior
and his apostles, but also as an ar
t.cle of fOod.
[ furthermore believe that such
discreet use Of pure wine was not
appreciablv injurious, but often
beneficial.
l think we can afford to admit all
this and still stand in i'm enable
ground in favor of the Lrohibit0ry
amendment. Does that amendment
propose to prevent the sale Of wine
Tor medicinal or mechanical purpO~
ses? No. Does the amendment
propose to suppress altogether the
manufacture of spirits? No. viii
it, if passed, prevent citizens from
making their own wine, beer, cider.
or even whisky? Not Al all. SO
tLat Tor nted1ul purposes, lfany one
should insist that it IS a necessity,
spirits may always be Obtained.
What does the amendment pros
pose? Simply to- put Il stop to the
selling, or making for sale, any
VINE, ale, beer, or WHISKY as a bever-
age.
The evils attendant upon the in
discriminate sale Of spirits are so
overwhelming that the people pro-
pose to res, rain it more tnan 1t has
even been restrained before. And
that Is the whole OF it. Whisky has
been under surveillance, under
guard, tor many years III Sll TIE
States. The hama OF the law has
been ON tins unruly monster nearly
always. 1t is no new thing. All
hat is now desired is to put addi-
tioual difficulties in the way OF Its
free and improper use. For my part
| believe alcoholic spirits will be
made and used as long as corn and
vine shall grow on the earth. Yet
the manner of Its use and manuiac'
ture can be regulated, restrained
contro led by law-and ought to b'
Just as the manufacture and us'
OF many other things are restrained
and governed by law.
The law prohibits the sale OF de-
ca, ed meats as food for human be
n.s, but it Is no otfense TO sci tht
came meats to a farmer to b. pu
2 IN his mfnure pile. The law in man,
of the States Iorbids the sale OF PTS
tolls, yet they might be broken u
and sold as scrap iron.
g So it is that whenever the peopl
It become convinced that the usa ~
: lndiScrimlnate sale Of any commodi
= ty or article is an injury to the pull
e lie health or public morals the
e should have laws regulating and re
s straining the traffic. VIII viii sa
!. 10 the contrarYI
a Now, l come to the second poin
n in this discussion. The ciIcum
d stance that our Savior made an
used VINE in his day Is no argumtr
why we should not prohibit l
,e manufacture and sale as beveras
Id in our day,
,e Our Savior approved and aide
On the catching of great quantities
ot fish in nets, which WAS right an
ed proper then. Would that be a re;
he son why our legislature should n
ar pass laws against seinlng our rive
IL or lakes now? 1.-THE catching
food fish in this wholesale mann
H. should now be regarded as injnriO
= 10 the people by destroying t
Il. Young fish, and thereby dlminisl
u ing the supply of food in a Growdt
iIe State, who would be so silly as
10 argue that no law ought to lie pas
ed to regulate the business or pr
hibit it altogether, because our Sa
az Tor and his apostles fished in Il
Al. way?
Circumstances alter cases. In t
=" DAYS OF our Savior and his apost
nc it was not considered wrong for the
Us with a multitude probably, to wa
he through field of wheat and pluck
us ears. Would that fact be reas
why similar conduct on the part
~ a crowd Of men should not be
W garded as trespass now? Becau
lad Christ and his disciples pass
roe through wheat field on the Sabbs
"a day, therefore yon and and G
neighbors may get together a
VIC march through any mans wAt
.nd field now, and there must be
ut, law declaring il trespaEss WI
ans sort OF sense is there III such talk
that?
Our Savior was governed byl
surroundings. That is To say,
or made himself one OF the peOp
be lie had no Ieculiarities, exc
~. that no was free from sin. 1t !
~ very necessary, as the sorlPtu
- abnudantly show, That he shoi
De be as mucn human as possible
Ica order 70 be perfect Savior. lie
IN he hungered and thirsted and
the and drank ald wept ana suite
like a man. lie ate bread and dr'
wine like ali the / eople. And
Ae'- him to drink wine Was no more
lon than 10 drink water, nor would d
.hn, for YOU and me if Ne would use
rrv always as he dId.
Will any body argue that W.